Kerry drops support for dairy compact (Kerry's childhood: "lived on a farm" "explained")

Boston Globe ^ | July 4, 2004 | Glen Johnson

[FairOpinion]

''Let me tell you something: When I was a kid, this 'kid from the East' had an aunt and uncle who had a dairy farm, and one of my greatest joys in life -- in fact, I lived on a farm as a young kid. My parents, when we lived in Massachusetts, we lived on a farm, and I learned my first cuss word sitting on a tractor with the guy who was driving it," Kerry said as he stood, wearing jeans and new Timberland hiking boots, in the tractor shed at the Dejno family farm in this community, which was founded on Independence Day in 1876.

''When I was 12 years old, my passion was being allowed to go out and sit on the John Deere and drive it around the field and plow, and I learned, as a kid, what it was like to look in back of me and see those furrows, and see that pattern, and feel a sense of accomplishment, and end up dusty and dirty and tired but feeling great, looking back at that field that you plowed."

Afterward, a spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter, said Kerry was referring to two farm experiences, one when he and his parents lived on a farm in Millis, Mass., and later when he frequented a dairy farm straddling the Ipswich/Hamilton border that was owned by his aunt and uncle. The first farm was where Kerry rode a tractor with a hand who worked the family's property. At the dairy farm, he tilled the land himself.

At the time, Kerry's parents lived in Europe and he attended boarding school in Switzerland, but he returned to Massachusetts on vacations, Cutter said.

[nightdriver]

".....Kerry said as he stood, wearing jeans and new Timberland hiking boots.."

Yeah, he's just a regular clod-masher, ain't he? (/sarc.)

[King Prout]

bubba, at least, was amusing when he lied about trivia.

flipper is ANNOYING AT ALL TIMES, especially when he lies about trivia.

also - usually ya hadda work at it a bit to bust bubba - whereas flipper's lies are so damned stupid... worse even than algore's (and that is saying something)

[Paul Atreides]

Please, please, please! Let him put on a pair of Tommy Hilfiger overalls.

[CMailBag]

He also told the saps where he was shooting yesterday that he started hunting when he was 12. Probably started hunting while driving the tractor for the first time.. Sounds like he must have been hunting frogs.

[Mr Rogers]

Great links... a couple of other quotes:

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Before he married Teresa Heinz, the heir to the food empire, Kerry had little more than his annual Senate salary of $133,600 and a trust fund valued at $50,000 to $100,000.

In 1970, a year after returning from the Vietnam War, Kerry married Julia Thorne, who wore a wedding dress handed down from an ancestor whose nuptials were attended by Alexander Hamilton and George Washington. Thorne came from a wealthy Long Island, N.Y., family and, like Kerry, spent long periods of her youth in Europe.

As Kerry struggled to launch his political career, Thorne used her wealth to help support the family. He was a private lawyer and prosecutor in Middlesex County, Mass., before running for lieutenant governor in 1982, the year he and Thorne split. The financial terms of their 1988 divorce were not made public.

He bounced from apartment to apartment, sometimes staying with his daughters when his former wife was away or with buddies from his Vietnam years.

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The reporter is confused, even by reporter standards.

Kerry was poor, forced to live on his $11,000/month salary (with 75K in the bank) - and any money he received as part of his divorce settlement for the multi-millionaire first wife...who had to marry in a hand me down dress from colonial times.

Poor bastard - imagine trying to get by on 11K/month! Probably Reagan's fault. How to make ends meet on $2,500/week. Fortunately, poor John had a solution -

"“He ran in circles with money, but money was never an issue for John. He was cheap,” said Bundy, a Chicago investment manager." Ya know, if ya cut a few corners, live off your daughters and war pals - why, you can stretch 2.5K/week somehow.

Good thing he found a billionaire to marry.

A man can't live on 2,500/week forever, you know...

[King Prout]

I wish... (am I allowed to say that?)

[Lancey Howard]

That is still no excuse for crass stupidity.

I don't know if you are familiar with the concept of "malicious stupidity", but I certainly subscribe to the notion. When people from traditional American families vote along with the athiests, welfare bums, condom throwers, Hollywood drunks, abortion enthusiasts, gold-chained union thugs, screeching feminists, government-addicted minority "victims", socialist college professors, pornographers, and all the rest of the losers, sickos, parasites, and malcontents who make up the Democrat base, THAT is malicious stupidity.

They may as well tape "kick me" signs to their own backs.

[Paul Atreides]

"So, do you all know the proper usages of the word 'f**kin',' now?"

[King Prout]

[King Prout]

LMAO

[Paul Atreides]

I agree, wholeheartedly.

[EllaMinnow]

We need a list of questions for M'sier Kerry.

Have you ever eaten in a Cracker Barrel?

Pulled a tick off a dog?

Stayed at a KOA?

Worn Wrangler jeans?

[Paul Atreides]

Do you know how to use a supermarket scanner?

[barker]

Afterward, a spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter, said Kerry was referring to two farm experiences, one when he and his parents lived on a farm in Millis, Mass., and later when he frequented a dairy farm straddling the Ipswich/Hamilton border that was owned by his aunt and uncle. The first farm was where Kerry rode a tractor with a hand who worked the family's property. At the dairy farm, he tilled the land himself.

This whole story is a crock of that stuff you mentioned. After he says anything his handlers have to explain what he meant. Sheeesh!

[Morgan's Raider]

You know how desperate he must be if he will:
(a) Even deign to acknowledge the NASCAR rabble;
(b) Be photographed holding a shotgun.

Not if the shotgun is a $15,000 Perazzi over-and-under. Nothing but the finest for Mrs. Heinz's little gigolo, y'know.

[Paul Atreides]

"I think I'll name you Teresa, you Hillary, and you....."

[MissyMa]

Not related to this article, but Fox said that Kerry claimed to hold conservative values and although he is pro-choice he is against abortion.

He is trying to play these people like the violin. He is so far to the left the only conservative value he has is...............well.........I can't think of any at this time. I hope the media puts down his exact quotes in the paper tomorrow because they were such BS.

[Mr Rogers]

There is also this classic line:

"Richard Kerry taught his son to navigate the hard way: by blindfolding him in the fog and making him figure out how to get home."

OUCH!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[King Prout]

re: ruled by emotion vs. malicious stupidity

we often fail to discriminate between the rank-and-file Dims and their political masters.

The rank-and-file are undisciplined, ruled by their Ids, and have poor analytical skills. Not "malicious" per-se (though often vain and spiteful, on top of being effectively mindless meat-puppets for their masters)

The masters, on the other hand...

see what I'm gettin' at?

[Morgan's Raider]

Caption:

"My name is Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht".